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Sensitivity functionals in contact problems of elasticity theory

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The sensitivity functional constructed for the variational elasticity problem with given friction is proved to be lower semicontinuous. An analysis based on this property is conducted for a duality scheme with the modified Lagrangian functional.

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Original Russian Text © E.M. Vikhtenko, G. Woo, R.V. Namm, 2014, published in Zhurnal Vychislitel’noi Matematiki i Matematicheskoi Fiziki, 2014, Vol. 54, No. 7, pp. 1218–1228.

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Vikhtenko, E.M., Woo, G. & Namm, R.V. Sensitivity functionals in contact problems of elasticity theory. Comput. Math. and Math. Phys. 54, 1190–1200 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0965542514070112

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